, 1887-12-22

est fight the senate has ever seen Will
be made over uIm.
The Secretary of War has issued
an order reserving $40 acres of lsnd
for the military reservation OF Fort
! Spokane, ". L.
Senator Mitchell proposes to intro
duce a bill in Congress practically
excluding Chinese and nearly pro-
hiblting intercourse between this
country and China.
For president in 1888. John Sher-
man of Ohio, for vice president:
| George W. Curtis Of New York,
Platform: The prodigals return un
der modified conditions-calIs liver
and bacon for the mugs; veal outlets
for the republicans only.-St. Louis
GiObe-DcmOcrdt.
Herr Most doesn't like our iaiIs.
In England" he says, L had cell
four times as large as this, while in
Austria L was simply restrained OF
my liberty There is no finer jail
connoisseur living than Herr Most.
| Col. Alex Chambers. 7th Inf. well
remembered in this department as
1t Col. OF the Dist Inf. IS at Omaha.
in very poor heolth. The probabili-
ties are that before the end Of anoth-
er year he will be retired for disibil-
lily.
! 1t comes as statement Of some
authority that the republicans Of the
senate have agreed, substantially.
upon plan of fiscal legislation.
They propose reduction of the rev
enues by the sum Of S1O0,000,0OO a |
year or thereabout; and as q basis of
this reduction they propose to make
both sugar and tobacco entirely free
Of taxation.
The auditor of Washington Terri |
tory IS authority for the statement
that If properly assessed the valua-
ton of property in this Trui--Iy
would be SlG0,O0O,UOO, iustcit o.
S6O,OOO,OGO, as returned in his report. (
The increase from 1856 to 1851 was
SlO,OUO,O0O, OF a gain OF S9.CJO,0OO |
over 1885.
4 convention of South Carolina
farmers at Columbia last week voted |
James NJ. Brodhem to be the model |
farmer of the state. NIr. Brodham |
is rs year OLD, and has plowed every |
summer for 5S years, having made |
tifty-fOur crops on the same plauta |
ton. He has never bought a pound |
of bacon or lard for mis- own use, has
always raised wool enough for his |
own clothing, never refused a call of |
charity, took his last drink of whisky |
in 1897, and does not recollect having |
sworn an oath.
Senator Mitchell has introduced a !
bill to repeal so much Of the mining
laws as prevents foreigners from in~
veSting in mines in the United States. |
The law has worked hardship in |
Arizona, and in Nevada and Califor- |
ia. 1t has prevented ales of rich |
mines in Oregon, and in Washington |
and Idaho territories. English cap
ital awaits investment in the Cnur |
d'Alene mines, and elsewhere upon1
this coast. The discoverers aud |
owners of mines ask for the repeal of
the prohibitory provision. They
cannot sell their mines to American
capitalists, and are anxious for the
admission of foreign capital to help
develop large mineral fields through
out the Pacific northwest American
capital is slow in seeking mining in
vestments.
The province of Ho-Nan, in China,
III which q number of populous cities,
with thousands of Inhabitants, by the
inundation of the Hoang Ho or Vel
| low river, contains 5000 square
miles, with a population of over 49,
| OO0,O00 The Hoang Ho rises in
Thibet, flows into Mongolia, re-en-
tcrs China proper and enters the
gulf Of Pee-Chee Lee. 1t is about
2700 miles long and very turbulent in
its character. On its banks are Lau-
Choo-Foo, the capital of the province
of Kan 500, and Lai-Fong-FOo, the
capital of Ho-Nan In 1850 or in
1858, authorities differ as to the date,
the Hoang Ho left its former channel
about 200 miles from lis mouth and
made a new course for itself, north
east, to the gulf ot Pee-CheeLee,
greatly injuring the grand canal
BY this inundation ii has evidently
gone back to the old channel of 1850
3d. The Hoang Ho is called the
Yellow river faom the color the vel
low clay gives its waters.
Ellensburg Capital: Port Town
send, now one of the principal sea
port towns in the Pacific Northwest,
is deserving moro attention of the
Government than it has hitherto re-
ceived. According to the ARGUS,
the business OF that port has in
creased from $4,000 in 1886 to
S250,0O0 in 1887. This remarkable
growth, and it is fair to presume that
the same ratio can be maintained IN
the years to come. Good and sub
stantial Government buildings
should be erected in Port Townsend
during the coming year, and no
doubt large appropriation can be
secured this winter for tie compile
ton of the custom house at that
place. THE CAPITAL hopes TO see a
movement i'll this direction, and is
desirous of seeing Port Townsend at
tain the position nature Designed
the first seaport in the Pacific
Northwest"
Nine cables connect Europe and
America. Altogether there are 1890
nautical miles of cables.